Crosby friends for more than 85 years – Ludie Shourd (left) hugs Elma Black
Finch at Elma’s birthday party in
1996. They’re shown 70 years earlier in
the photo below.
Ludie Shourd Remembers Crosby
Before it was Crosby, the little community six miles west of Searcy was known as Armstrong Springs. This is a glimpse of the area during the Depression. .
By SHIRLEY FINCH HUGHES
sahughes@cswnet.com
These girls probably are at the Crosby Baptist Church, because they’re in
their “Sunday best” and several are holding songbooks.
It’s about 1926 and shown are (from left) Ruby Black, Mildred
Sanders, Lorene Branscum, Ethel Mae Cowgill, Floy Elliott, Ludie Allen
Shourd, Julia Branscum and baby
sister Thelma, ? Burks, and Elma Elizabeth Black Finch .
constructed in 1976. vvv
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These girls probably are at the Crosby Baptist Church, because they’re in their “Sunday best” and several are holding songbooks. It’s about 1926 and shown are (from left) Ruby Black, Mildred Sanders, Lorene Branscum, Ethel Mae Cowgill, Floy Elliott, Ludie Allen Shourd, Julia Branscum and baby sister Thelma, ? Burks, and Elma Elizabeth Black Finch .
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